Director, Insights & Analytics

Position Overview

Beam is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Insights & Analytics leader to expand our commercial capabilities as we advance our portfolio toward potential commercialization.

Responsibilities

• Market Insights & Research Leadership
• Build and lead market research capability across the portfolio.
• Partner with Marketing, Market Access, Medical Affairs, and Portfolio Strategy to define key business questions.
• Recommend appropriate market research methodologies and lead RFP processes and vendor selection for market research projects.
• Manage external research partners and ensure high-quality execution.
• Develop initial discussion guides, surveys, and stimuli in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Synthesize research findings into clear, actionable insights and facilitate cross-functional sharing.
• Forecasting & Analytical Support
• Lead forecasting processes across the portfolio, including:
• Patient flow and demand models
• Market uptake scenarios
• Sensitivity analyses and risk scenarios
• Develop and maintain analytical tools and models to support asset-level and portfolio-level decision making.
• Competitive Intelligence
• Establish and lead competitive intelligence processes across the portfolio.
• Monitor competitive clinical, regulatory, and commercial developments.
• Manage external CI vendors and spearhead CI strategy and coverage for conferences.
• Synthesize competitive insights into implications for strategy, positioning, and planning.
• Support scenario planning and strategic trade-off discussions.
• Early Pipeline & Portfolio Analyses
• Support early-stage assets with:
• Epidemiology and market sizing
• Competitive landscape assessments
• Unmet need and treatment paradigm analyses
• Possibly facilitate early asset TPP generation.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in a relevant academic field; MBA, MD, PhD, or other graduate degree strongly preferred
• 15+ years business experience within the pharma/biotech/biopharma space or consulting
• Experience in cell and gene therapy is strongly preferred
• Strong understanding of primary and secondary market research methodologies
• Proven experience leading vendor selection and managing research partners
• Must be capable of managing and prioritizing multiple activities
• Hands-on forecasting experience, including scenario planning, strongly preferred
• Able to synthesize complex data into clear strategic insights
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building new processes from scratch
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills

Role is based in Cambridge, MA

Candidates are expected to come onsite 1-3 days per week. Ability to travel 25% as needed.